This has nothing to do with having a favourite editor or anything like that. I was just wondering, per language, what are the most popular Integrated Development Environments? Maybe a top 2-3 if there is some contention. (Perceived popularity is enough)

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One way to treat this question would be to list one language/IDE pair per answer and let the # of upvotes gauge popularity.
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Anna Lear♦Sep 21 '10 at 19:00

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If this is going to become a voting thing it should be Community Wiki
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WalterJ89Sep 21 '10 at 19:09

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I agree that this should be community-wiki, not because it's a poll, but just because it's broad enough that it wouldn't make sense to have multiple answers for each language, so anyone should be able to edit them.
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GelatinSep 22 '10 at 16:21

@Mark C: Dots in the gutter at the side of the editor that indicate where lines of executable code are. They show where the debugger will stop when you're tracing through the code, and where the valid lines to set breakpoints on are. There were some glitches in earlier IDEs that could break this functionality, though.
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Mason WheelerOct 11 '10 at 4:45

For the record, Dev-C++ is more than a little out of date. It includes MinGW-GCC 3.4, while the current release of MinGW-GCC is 4.5. wxDev-C++ supposedly comes with a more recent compiler, although I would say there are fer better alternatives.
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greyfadeSep 21 '10 at 20:46

@Alex: ProjectCenter and ProjectManager under GNUstep, TextEdit under OpenStep, and emacs on pretty much anything all have Objective-C syntax support. There's a stillborn project to do Objective-C for Eclipse, which failed because the CDT didn't support ObjC.
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user4051Nov 3 '10 at 14:45

C/C++ - Visual Studio
C# - Visual Studio
Java - Depends. I use java mostly for mobiles, so, for example, Blackberry I use the Blackberry JDE, for any other J2ME mobile, Java ME SDK 3. I once used JCreator PRO to develop, one, when i didnt knew specified tools existed to code for mobiles, xDDDDD
JavaScript - Visual Studio, and that's cause i use mostly on my ASP.Net web applications
Visual Basic - 6.0 on MSVB6, .Net on Visual Studio (there's a software my companie bought and that was debeloped on 6; I was assigned to mantain and develope it further
PHP - DreamWeaver

Ruby

There's a question in the Hampton's Ruby Survey that may provide some concrete numbers about the "text editor" of preference in the Ruby world. Here's a chart of the results (at the time of writing):

The results suggest that TextMate is the most popular text editor among Ruby developers. It is worth noting that TextMate's popularity seems to be declining; so is the popularity of Eclipse based editors. On the other hand, the popularity of Vim, which I personally use, seems to be increasing.

If you're including Vim, then Notepad++. I use it for most languages, including Java (compiled with Ant) and smaller C++ projects (compiled with MinGW), and it seems to be pretty popular in general, especially for web development. It has more/better features than some of the more popular IDE's I've used, even. I do prefer using Visual Studio for C# and XCode for Objective-C, though.